Former boxer Gatti's body exhumed | read this item
The body of former world boxing champion Arturo Gatti has been exhumed at his family’s request.
A new autopsy will now be carried out on Mr Gatti’s body at the Quebec coroner’s office.
Mr Gatti was found dead on 11 July in a hotel in north-eastern Brazil where he had been staying with his wife and son.
Police [...]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–Lars Rasmussen sighed, half an hour into a demonstration of Google Wave, the company’s audacious attempt to reinvent Internet communication: we’d found another bug.
Google’s Lars Rasmussen demonstrated Wave for the first time in May, and is now focused on stamping out the bugs
Rasmussen had patiently worked around other minor bugs during the demo [...]
American’s odyssey to al Qaeda’s heartAmerican’s odyssey to al Qaeda’s heart | read this item
On September 10, 2007, almost exactly six years after al Qaeda attacked the United States, Bryant Neal Vinas, a 24-year-old American citizen born in Queens, New York.
Boarded a flight from the city en route to Lahore, in eastern Pakistan, determined to fight jihad in neighboring Afghanistan.
Brought up a Catholic by his Latin American immigrant [...]
Kareena is more than a wife: Saif Ali Khan | read this item
Saif Ali Khan walks in 10 minutes late. He’s looking fresh and surprisingly fit. He gives me a typical filmy hug and announces, “I haven’t had a bath yet.” I tell him that information would’ve been appreciated a few seconds earlier. Even though he is in his gym clothes, he’s not carrying his workout on [...]
Daughter guilty of killing mother | read this item
A woman and her boyfriend have been found guilty of killing her mother and dumping her body in a burn.
Anne Brown’s body was recovered from Clerkland Burn in Ayrshire last October. The 51-year-old had been beaten to death.
At the High Court in Glasgow, Lisa Brown was found guilty of murder and John Wilson was found [...]
'Swine flu liner' docks in France | read this item
A cruise ship carrying dozens of victims of swine flu among its 5,000 passengers and crew has docked in the south of France, officials have said.
Sixty crew members have so far been diagnosed with the H1N1 virus, while 70 of their colleagues were also showing signs of being infected, they added.
They will be treated on [...]
Deadly blasts hit Baghdad mosques | read this item
A series of bombings outside mosques in the Iraqi capital Baghdad have killed at least 29 people, Iraqi police sources say.
More than 130 people were injured when the six apparently co-ordinated bombs struck five Shia mosques.
Worshippers were leaving the mosques after Friday prayers at the time.
The number of those killed and injured is still rising [...]
An Israeli government report has said that the Israeli military campaign in Gaza earlier this year was “necessary and proportionate”.
The war and its conduct have been widely criticised, with Israel and Hamas accused of war crimes.
Palestinian sources say about 1,400 Gazans died in the conflict. Thirteen Israeli died.
The report said 100 inquiries had been launched [...]
Report highlights hunger in India | read this item
India is emerging as the world centre of hunger and malnutrition, a report by Indian campaign group, the Navdanya Trust, says.
The trust says that there are more than 200 million people – or one-in-four Indians – going without enough to eat.
The prominent environmentalist Vandana Shiva, who runs the trust, said there were now more hungry [...]
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) — A new Taliban military “code of conduct” calls for restrictions on suicide attacks aimed at avoiding the killing of civilians, but U.S. and Afghan military officials dismissed the document as propaganda, calling it hypocritical.
A Pakistani looks at a bus set on fire by Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan in June
The booklet, [...]
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